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Add additonal helper for handlebars-Templates

Open triplem opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Please select if your request is either something new or an enhancement

  • [x] Enhancement of an existing Feature.
  • [ ] Request of a new feature.

Please select the area your request applies to. (Multiple selections are Possible. You can leave blank if you're not sure.)

  • [ ] Workspace - VSCode workspace, vaults, Intellisense/autocomplete, Dendron settings
  • [ ] Lookup - Dendron's Lookup Command
  • [ ] Views - Dendron Preview, Tree View, Side Panels in the UI
  • [x] Schema - Dendron Schemas
  • [ ] Pod - Data import from / export to Dendron
  • [ ] Publish - External Site Publish
  • [ ] Markdown - Markdown features, such as syntax support and features

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Currently I do create journal-notes up-front, meaning for several days in advance. Right now I can use the CURRENT_* variables as well as the title to show the title in the note as well. This is not working, since the CURRENT_* variables just show todays date and not the selected date.

the fnameToDate is fine, but is showing a whole date, whereas I just would like to show the day, the month and possibly the year in my specific locale-format.

So, when i do create a note for say the 2023-09-09, I would like to show this date in my note as eg. 09.09.2023.

Describe the solution you'd like

When creating a journal note in advance (meaning for an upcoming day several weeks ahead, e.g.), I would like to use a variable or mechanism to print the date of the note in a specific format.

Describe alternatives you've considered

tried already to use the fnameToDate and the functions available to this prototype, but to no avail.

triplem avatar Aug 17 '22 15:08 triplem

Thanks @triplem for the suggestion - @kevinslin / @tma66 for viz on handlebar template enhancements.

jonathanyeung avatar Aug 19 '22 09:08 jonathanyeung

One more thought on this one. Probably it would be a good idea, to make the helpers extendable by users, so that users can provide their own helpers. Common helpers could be shared in the community.

triplem avatar Aug 19 '22 18:08 triplem

Other tools provide the CURRENT_*-Variables as well and do provide the currently selected date in these variables, probably this could be a way to provide this functionality without relying on the date provided in the filename?

triplem avatar Oct 30 '22 11:10 triplem